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"The heads of the
Chemical-Medical-Vivisection Kombinat, the Institutes of Health in all the
industrialised, profit-oriented countries, the mediamakers dependent on
petrochemical advertising or proprietors, and the leaders of the old-established
animal welfare societies are all partners in the monstrous conspiracy, designed
to keep any evidence of the disastrous effects of a veterinary-based medicine
under wraps, safe from public exposure."
This expose shows how the public has been brainwashed into equating medical care
with health. Practically no public funds go into prevention because there is no
money to be gained with it. The big money is all in the pseudo
"Research", done on millions of animals, which can only give
fallacious answers, and in the treatment of patients with the violent,
destructive, but immensely lucrative therapies imposed by official medicine.
Not more chemicals, but fewer chemicals, not an increase in drugs, but a drastic
reduction of drugs, not a multiplication of animal experiments, but a total
abolition of all such "alibi" experiments, are the inescapable premise
for a betterment of living conditions and an improvement of public health. The
book brings ample proof of this, besides unearthing some information that many
powerful individuals in
America
and abroad would prefer to keep buried forever.

Slaughter Of
The Innocent
Hans --Ruesch, 1983

The mighty and redoubtable
Hans Ruesch deserves a special tribute for creating a whole world movement of
scientific anti-vivisectionism thanks to this book. The late Dr. Walter R.
Hadwen was the first to state repeatedly and unequivocally that the battle
against vivisection can only be won if it is fought scientifically. Hans Ruesch,
writer and medical historian, advanced the movement further by focusing on the
tremendous dangers of vivisection for humankind and by highlighting those AV
organisations that, either through infiltration, treachery or sheer intellectual
laziness, refused to argue the AV case scientifically.

"Reforms are started
by fierce individualists, by heretics, deserters from the herd, by fearless and
therefore always small minorities. The advocates of an abolition of vivisection
on medical grounds, of which a goodly number are listed in this work, today
still represent a minority . But what does it signify? Wisdom is not found by
counting noses. Most of what he whole world now admits to be true or takes for
granted, and most great social reforms which have proved immensely beneficial
were originally advocated by a small, derided minority -sometimes a minority of
one."

All the doctors cited in this book contribute to the disqualification of the
vivisectionist method as being cruel, misleading, unscientific, and
counterproductive. Quotations range from 1824 to 1988 and include contributions
from both unknown and prominent members of the medical profession.

Undoubtedly the foremost
British scientific AV medical doctor of the early decades of this century, Dr.
Hadwen had the courage, commitment, insight and knowledge to insist on fighting
the AV battle, not solely along moral lines but on the scientific/medical front
too as he knew that this was the only approach likely to yield ultimate victory.
He was a total abolitionist. Dr. Hadwen was equally against the 'need' to
search for 'alternatives' to vivisection. The "Dr . Hadwen Trust for
Humane Research" is in flagrant disregard of his condemnation of
"constructive anti-vivisection" ( now called
"alternatives").

Dr. Hadwen wrote:
"We are being constantly urged to wander off into various bypaths to the
neglect of the main issue".. We are frequently told that we fail in
progressiveness because we decline to support or initiate methods of treatment
intended to take the place of those derived from and sustained by vivisection.
We are assured that vivisection should be supplanted by substitutes, and that
until we can present some system that will effectually take its place, our
campaign will be a failure."

The search for
"alternatives" is claimed to be carried on by a number of
organisations for "humane research" and the funding is supplied by the
tax payer, industry and those AVs who still believe that vivisection will, step
by step, eventually be brought to an end by supporting such enterprises. The
Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research was told flatly by the Government
that the "alternatives" would have to be tested on animals
to see if they were indeed alternatives.

Dirty Medicine Martin J. --Walker, 1993 ,
Slingshot Publications

This well-researched book
by an investigative journalist gives a history of the worldwide attacks on
complementary and alternative medicine which started in the last century.

It exposes many of the secrets and mysteries that multinational drug companies
would rather remain hidden. In 1987 the Wellcome Foundation obtained a license
for the drug known as AZT, heralded by the media and marketed by Wellcome as the
answer to the AIDS epidemic. With the marketing of AZT, the campaign against
alternative medicine was suddenly transformed from an academic dispute to a war.
Dirty tricks, industrial sabotage and character assassination replaced normal
business and scientific practice. Under the guise of government regulation, big
business, science and medical orthodoxy defended their products and profits from
competition.
"New ideas are disputed by those with both altruistic and mercenary
motives. Progress, however, is like the statues which Michelangelo
described as trapped within his blocks of marble: it will eventually be
released."

" The vehemence of
the opposition to a theory is often a good indication of its
significance."

" Animal tests
themselves have never had to be validated, yet the establishment demands
inordinate validation of non-animal alternatives. This is a frustrating fact ,
but it only slows down and does not prevent the progress of compelling new
technology."

"It is easy to forget
just how often the 'impossible' has been achieved by people working in small
ways, each adding their drop to the cup, for example, the collapse of
apartheid, the end of colonial rule in
India
, the restoration of democracy in Europe."

"It is argued that
humans are the most important species on earth and therefore have the right to
vivisect. Are the pro-vivisectionists really saying that we should be less
considerate of those who appear to have a lower intellectual ability? This
shameless logic would justify experimenting on mentally deficient human
beings"

In his book , Prof. Croce
discusses experiments on human beings, which is on the increase: on elderly or
terminal patients, living fetuses, kidnapped children, the military, illegal
aliens, blacks and the mentally defective. Part Two describes the use of
scientific methods, for example, computers, "in vitro" methods and
others.

"Its (vivisection)
influence has been powerful because it gave the illusion of being a short cut to
clinical and anatomical/pathological observation. It is an illusion welcomed in
these hectic days of the idolatry of Formula One and of travel by Concorde. It
is like someone who, seeking a short cut through an unknown forest, cannot even
find his way back home."

The dedication reads,
"Fourteen years" continuous struggle for justice through the legal system
having revealed every legitimate channel systematically closed against us
- this book is dedicated to the brave men and women who challenge such injustice
through civil disobedience."

It exposes suppressed facts such as the growing medical movement against animal
experimentation, the injustice of the peer review system whereby animal
experimenters make their own laws and regulate their own activities, and the
colossal profits and academic advantages being made from the industry.

Its contents are constrained to rebutting the claims made in Animal Research
Saves Lives, a booklet distributed throughout NZ in 1990 by MAF, part of a
cleverly orchestrated campaign to combat the growing abolitionist movement.
There are chapters dedicated to numerous specific diseases including polio,
smallpox, rabies and measles. Vaccinations are discussed along with thalidomide,
cancer, AIDS , heart surgery, etc. There is information about drugs and
the law , diseases of cats and dogs, the vivisection industry and endangered
species.

"Without exception the advocates of abolition quoted in this work, and even
in the vivisectors themselves, who unwittingly time and time again give a good
case for abolition, do so on the grounds that vivisection creates medical
catastrophe. The writer has not discovered a single doctor's comment which
condemns animal experiments because they are cruel or infringe the rights
of animals. Perhaps they believe such considerations are self-evident. In every
instance doctors condemning vivisection do so because of their concern about
human health and the great dangers arising from basing it on the false premise
of animal experiments. I am indebted to these pioneers and forerunners of
the truth, who, having the courage to step out of line and speak against
commonly-held beliefs based on bigotry and brain-washing, fall into the category
of Galileo and Sammelweiss, the former because he insisted the earth was round
and not flat and the latter because he ordered doctors to wash their hands
before examining women in childbirth. Because of the courage of present-day
doctors defecting from the established school of thought that vivisection brings
health, it is now only a matter of time before the institutionalised practice of
using animals and people as alibis to camouflage, sanitise and float despicable
businesses in order to beget tainted profits, is recognised as the international
conspiracy that it is , and overthrown."

NZAVS (which Bette founded) has put the whole book (and
the
background to the pamphlet that started it, and the reaction to her book) on
the net

"'..there must be
some overriding scientific reason as to why these little rodents are chosen. Do
they, for instance, possess metabolic and physiological processes which are
uncannily well- matched to human ones? Are they anatomically the same as us? Do
they possess the same psychology, the same social structures and interactions as
ourselves? Why are they so widely used? chief among the highly scholarly and
scientific reasons why rats are so widely used is because they are cheap, small,
and easy to pick up!"

Dr. Page describes in
detail how there are so many differences even between different species of
monkey, that results from one type of monkey cannot even be applied to another
type. Hence claims that veterinary medicine benefits from animal experiments are
given the lie.
A valuable addition to the growing mountain of scientific AV literature.

The Use Of
Animals In Medical Research: The Wrong Path
Dr. Tony --Page, 1996
UKAVIS Publications

A booklet aimed at
teenagers which seeks to put the medical and scientific case against the use of
animals in medical research. It is written in question and answer form, for
example:

"QUESTION: Can we cure human cancer by experimenting on animals?
ANSWER: No. Animals do not get the same kinds of cancer as us- the cancer in
laboratory animals tends to be in different parts of the body from human cancer,
and it usually does not spread to different organs or body sites, as it does
with humans. Also, cancer drugs tested on animals frequently do harm to people-
or simply fail to do much good. One researcher, Dr. Albert Braverman, said in
The Lancet medical journal in 1991 that chemotherapy meets with--"
almost invariable failure". These useless chemicals were of
course thought to be effective after being tested on animals. Moreover, chemical
substances that cause cancer in humans often do not cause it in lab animals.
When one researcher tested out on animals 19 chemicals that cause cancer in
humans, he found that only 7 of the 19 caused cancer in animals - that is,
a success rate of 36.8%. If you got that score in an exam, you would fail. The
researcher, Dr. David Salsburg, even said that we would be better off tossing a
coin and guessing which substances cause cancer in humans rather than using
animals- at least then we would be right 50% of the time (a better result than
we get from animal tests!). "

" Change comes about when enough people make enough fuss and Parliament
cannot ignore it. That is how slavery was abolished. The law gets changed when
enough people make a clamour".

Vivisection
-Science Or Sham
Roy --Kupsinel, MD, 1990

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Problem Drugs
by Andrew Chetley. The book is absolutely excellent.
The book deals with many drug scandals/drug problems/problem drugs and was
published by (amongst others) Zed Books Ltd and Stirling Books (1996).

The folks bringing the class action would have to be naive in the
extreme to not realize a major corporation of virtually any type was not
using a PR firm. It's important to get this info out, anybody truly
concerned should read minimally "Toxic Sludge is Good For You, Lies,
Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry" and "Trust us, we're
experts: How Industry manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future"
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, ISBNs 1-56751-060-4 and
1-58542-059-X: http://www.prwatch.org/

Dr H.M. Pappworth - Human Guinea Pigs (Pelican Books,
London 1969).

Scientists For Global Responsibility have produced their new booklet
'Ethical Careers in Science & Technology' and it is available at:http://www.sgr.org.uk/
See page 22 'Ethics and Animal Experimentation' by Gill Langley - rather a
disappointing piece promoting the 3Rs.

In the summer of 1997 one of the UKs biggest suppliers of dogs for
vivisection was closed by public pressure. Hundreds of dogs were released
into the hands of sanctuaries and rehoming organisations to begin their long
road to a normal life.

Last year a book was compiled bringing together the tales of these dogs in
the aftermath of Consort's closure. It costs 4.50-pounds, 100% of which goes
directly to the campaign to close HLS.
If you want a copy of this historic book, contact Pat at:Pat@ladyfox.freeserve.co.uk

"I am absolutely convinced that so long as people shed the blood
of God's creatures, there'll be no peace on earth."
--Isaac
Bashevis Singer
- ETERNAL TREBLINKA -
PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2002
The cover of ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,
by Charles Patterson, is now posted on the book's website:http://www.powerfulbook.com/

A
Critical Look at Animal Experimentation - By Medical Research Modernization
Committee - The animal research community wishes the public to equate animal
experimentation with medical progress, but increasing numbers of scientists and
clinicians are challenging animal experimentation on scientific grounds.

DBAE's[
DLRM ]Third International Scientific Congress
- For the first time, lawyers
joined doctors to seriously question the validity of animal experimentation in
relation to human health at Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments's
Third International Scientific Congress,
London
,
10 May 1995
.

Why
a Coalition of Doctors and Lawyers?-Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible
Medicine, an alliance of medical and legal professionals, was formed out of
Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments's 1995 international scientific
Congress, at which medical speakers were joined by lawyers.

Cancer
Research - A Super Fraud?
- By Robert Ryan BSc, CAFMR - Have you ever
wondered why, despite the billions of dollars spent on cancer research over many
decades, and the constant promise of a cure which is forever "just around
the corner", cancer continues to increase?

A Guide to
The Problems With Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants - By Alix Fano MA, Murry
J. Cohen MD, Marjorie Cramer MD, Ray Greek MD, and Stephen R. Kaufman MD,
Medical Research Modernization Committee - There have been some 55
animal-to-human whole organ transplants attempted since 1906. All have proven
unsuccessful, resulting in the suffering and death of all patients and donor
animals.

Slow
Learners Or What?- Excerpted from the New York Times - Environmental
regulation in the
United States
has been thrown into question after the National Institute of Environmental
Health Services found upon reviewing their animal tests that these were
inappropriate in identifying health hazards because chemicals frequently have
wholly different effects between animals and humans.

Critique
of NonHuman-Primate Research At Yerkes: A Summary - By Murry J. Cohen MD,
Stephen R. Kaufman MD, and Brandon P. Reines MD, Medical Research Modernization
Committee - Those who experiment on nonhuman primates have grossly exaggerated
the role of nonhuman-primate studies in medical progress and significantly
minimized the misleading data that results.

A
Critique of Maternal Deprivation Monkey Experiments at The State University
of New York Health Science Center - By Murry J. Cohen MD, Medical Research
Modernization Committee - The relevance and importance of maternal deprivation
monkey experiments continue to be scientifically debated because of conceptual
and methodological flaws in the experimental design.

Shortcomings
of AIDS-Related Animal Experimentation - By Stephen R. Kaufman MD, Murry J.
Cohen MD, and Steve Simmons, Medical Research Modernization Committee - Animal
experimentation consumes much of the funding for research aimed at addressing
the AIDS epidemic. The Medical Research Modernization Committee has identified
fundamental scientific problems with animal experimentation in general and
AIDS-related animal experimentation in particular.